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NYCfoodie

REMOTE · NYCFOODIE-PRODUCTION.UP.RAILWAY.APP · SCANNED SEP 29

Editorial NYC restaurant recommendations for AI agents: search, compare, guides, ratings.

+3 this week 67 Trust /100
Trust breakdown (7 categories)

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →

Endpoint Security57
Transport & Reachability100
Schema Quality & AI Usability66
  • AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
  • Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1941 tokens (~242/item across 8 items; 8 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
  • Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management30
  • Stability observed for 9 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
  • 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
  • 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
  • No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
  • We read all 8 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
  • An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
  • Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Install

How do I install the NYCfoodie MCP server?

NYCfoodie is a hosted endpoint at https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

remote · nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app

# add to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http tireniajilore-nycfoodie 'https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp'
// .cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tireniajilore-nycfoodie": {
      "url": "https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
// .vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "tireniajilore-nycfoodie": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.tireniajilore-nycfoodie]
url = "https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
// opencode.json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "tireniajilore-nycfoodie": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
# add to OpenClaw
openclaw mcp add tireniajilore-nycfoodie --url 'https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp' --transport streamable-http
# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp_servers:
  tireniajilore-nycfoodie:
    url: "https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
// ~/.netclaw/config/netclaw.json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "tireniajilore-nycfoodie": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
# add to Vellum
assistant mcp add tireniajilore-nycfoodie -t streamable-http -u 'https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp'
// mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tireniajilore-nycfoodie": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

Changelog

Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.

  • 29 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 27 to 30. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 8 days of observed history at the previous scan, 9 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 28 Sept 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 27 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 25 Sept 26 0
    • We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server See what changed → functional
  • 24 Sept 26 +1

    No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

  • 22 Sept 26 +1
    • Tool “compare_restaurants” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
    • Tool “get_restaurant” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
    • “compare_restaurants” added an optional parameter “ids” cosmetic
    • “find_similar” added an optional parameter “name” cosmetic
    • “get_restaurant” added an optional parameter “name” cosmetic
    • “compare_restaurants” made “restaurants” optional cosmetic
    • “find_similar” made “id” optional cosmetic
    • “get_restaurant” made “id” optional cosmetic
  • 21 Sept 26 0
    • Tool “find_similar” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
    • Tool “get_restaurant” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
    • Tool “guide_consensus” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
    • Tool “search_restaurants” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
    • Schema quality: 204 → 230 ▼ functional
    • Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
    • “search_restaurants” reworded the description of “occasion” cosmetic
    • “top_rated” reworded the description of “occasion” cosmetic
  • 20 Sept 26 63

    First indexed and scored.

Diagnostics

Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.

Captured 29 Sept 2026 · Probed https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp

TLS valid

Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .

Subject Issuer Valid from Valid until Key Signature Serial
CN=*.up.railway.app CN=YE2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US 27 Sept 2026 26 Dec 2026 ECDSA 256 ECDSA-SHA384 618edc56941aa1165ddb080bf9f799eb7c1
SANs: *.up.railway.app, up.railway.app
CN=YE2,O=Let's Encrypt,C=US (CA) CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US 3 Sept 2025 2 Sept 2028 ECDSA 384 ECDSA-SHA384 4df3b15dd6c0784c507cd37b58e6f115
CN=Root YE,O=ISRG,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 ECDSA 384 ECDSA-SHA384 872165fc34b6e5fba8add5b3705fb53a
CN=ISRG Root X2,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US (CA) CN=ISRG Root X1,O=Internet Security Research Group,C=US 13 May 2026 2 Sept 2032 ECDSA 384 SHA256-RSA 6c8f1dc727c7117f7baf853ac980f9cd

Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →

DNSSEC insecure

Validation of nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app. — Not signed

Zone DS Keys Algorithms Outcome
. trust_anchor 20326, 38696 8, 8 Verified
app. present 23684 8 Verified
railway.app. absent Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation
Authentication No authorisation required

The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.

Result No authorisation required
HTTP status 200

Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →

Transports 2 probes
Transport URL Outcome Status Location
streamable-http https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp Verified 200
http (plaintext) http://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp HTTPS enforced 301 https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp
MCP tools · 8 exposed · ~1,941 tokens

The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →

Tool Tokens
compare_restaurants ~122

Compare 2–5 named restaurants head-to-head as structured data (rating, price, tags, review summary). Use when the user asks to choose between specific places, e.g. 'should I go to X or Y?' or to compare four options on a budget.

NameTypeReqDescription
citystringyesCity slug, always required. Currently 'new-york', covering the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan).
idsarray–Alias for restaurants
restaurantsarray–Restaurant ids or names to compare

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

find_guides ~165

Find curated editorial guides (ranked lists) matching a theme, e.g. 'best ramen'. Returns each guide with its ranked entries, blurbs and linked restaurants. Use when the user wants the editorial lists themselves rather than individual restaurant picks. Set include_entries=false to list guide titles and metadata without pulling every entry blurb.

NameTypeReqDescription
citystringyesCity slug, always required. Currently 'new-york', covering the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan).
include_entriesboolean–Set false to return guide metadata without the ranked entry blurbs (default true)
limitinteger–Max results (default 10)
querystring–Theme, e.g. 'best ramen', 'date night'

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

find_similar ~132

Find restaurants similar to a named one, scored by shared cuisine, occasion and neighbourhood tags, price-tier proximity and guide co-occurrence. Use for 'like X' or 'alternatives to X' requests.

NameTypeReqDescription
citystringyesCity slug, always required. Currently 'new-york', covering the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan).
idstring–Canonical restaurant id, or a name to resolve
limitinteger–Max results (default 10)
namestring–Alias for id: the restaurant's exact name

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

get_restaurant ~352

Get the full picture for one restaurant in one call: Infatuation rating (0–10), price tier, address, reservation link, booking intel, review summary, tags and every guide it appears in. Use when the user names a specific restaurant. editorial_blurbs carries verbatim Eater guide excerpts (guide title, URL, position, blurb, captured_at) for any venue with Eater guide entries — Eater-only venues have no rating or price, only this prose plus tags. Full review prose is opt-in via include_prose (default: headline and summary only). review.headline is the source's actual headline when one exists, otherwise null — use review.summary for the descriptive text. match_type is 'exact' when the id or name matched verbatim, 'fuzzy' when it was resolved from a partial/typo'd name — never present a fuzzy match as the venue the user named without saying so. booking is null when the source has no booking intel (not the same as walk-in-only); a reservation link alone never implies a booking policy. data_as_of is the dataset vintage and crawled_at is when this venue was last crawled — caveat fast-decaying claims (closures especially) when these are old.

NameTypeReqDescription
citystringyesCity slug, always required. Currently 'new-york', covering the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan).
idstring–Canonical restaurant id, or a name to resolve
include_proseboolean–Include the full review text (default false: headline + summary only)
namestring–Alias for id: the restaurant's exact name

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

guide_consensus ~149

Rank restaurants by how many distinct guides feature them, optionally filtered by theme. Use for 'where can't I go wrong' or safest-bet picks. Differs from find_guides: this returns ranked restaurants, not the guides themselves. Each row carries guide_appearance_count (a number); get_restaurant's guide_appearances is the full entry list.

NameTypeReqDescription
citystringyesCity slug, always required. Currently 'new-york', covering the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan).
limitinteger–Max results (default 10)
themestring–Guide theme, e.g. 'ramen', 'brunch'

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

search_restaurants ~528

Search restaurants by free text, cuisine, neighbourhood, occasion or price, optionally near a point. Use when the user describes what they want (e.g. 'Italian date night in the West Village', 'ramen near me') rather than naming a specific restaurant. Free text matches names, tags, review prose and guide blurbs (e.g. 'cacio e pepe'). Returns compact matches with Infatuation rating (0–10), price tier, address_line and tags. Cards carry guide_appearance_count (a number); get_restaurant's guide_appearances is the full entry list. Known-closed venues are excluded by default. Coverage for city='new-york' is the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan). With no query or filters, returns the highest-rated venues.

NameTypeReqDescription
citystringyesCity slug, always required. Currently 'new-york', covering the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan).
cuisinestring–e.g. 'Italian', 'ramen'
include_closedboolean–Include known-closed venues (default false)
latnumber–Latitude for proximity search. Must be given together with lng; radius_km defaults to 5 km when omitted. A location outside the NYC coverage area is rejected with an error.
limitinteger–Max results (default 10)
lngnumber–Longitude for proximity search. Must be given together with lat; radius_km defaults to 5 km when omitted.
min_ratingnumber–Minimum Infatuation rating
neighborhoodstring–e.g. 'West Village', or a borough like 'Brooklyn'
occasionstring–Occasion tag. Allowed: 'Date Nights', 'Happy Hours', 'Pre-Theater', 'See & Be Seen', 'Serious Takeout Operation', 'Unique Dining Experiences', 'Wasting Your Time & Money'. Hyphens, spaces and undersc…
price_tierinteger–1 ($) to 4 ($$$$)
querystring–Free text, e.g. 'date-night Italian'
radius_kmnumber–Search radius in kilometres (default 5 when lat/lng are given without it). Requires lat and lng.
sortstring–Sort by rating (default) or guide appearances

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

submit_feedback ~114

Record feedback on a tool result: a 1–5 rating, a comment, or both (at least one is required). Use after showing the user a recommendation to log what was good or wrong. Each call stores a new feedback entry; it changes nothing the user sees.

NameTypeReqDescription
commentstring–What was good or wrong
ratinginteger–1 (poor) to 5 (excellent)
toolstring–Which tool the feedback is about, e.g. 'search_restaurants'

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

top_rated ~379

List the highest-rated restaurants (Infatuation 0–10 scale), with optional cuisine, neighbourhood and price filters. Use for 'best in the city' requests. Differs from search_restaurants: no free-text query, strictly rating-ordered.

NameTypeReqDescription
citystringyesCity slug, always required. Currently 'new-york', covering the five boroughs plus the immediate metro (within 30 km of Manhattan).
cuisinestring–e.g. 'Italian', 'ramen'
include_closedboolean–Include known-closed venues (default false)
latnumber–Latitude for proximity search. Must be given together with lng; radius_km defaults to 5 km when omitted. A location outside the NYC coverage area is rejected with an error.
limitinteger–Max results (default 10)
lngnumber–Longitude for proximity search. Must be given together with lat; radius_km defaults to 5 km when omitted.
min_ratingnumber–Minimum Infatuation rating
neighborhoodstring–e.g. 'West Village', or a borough like 'Brooklyn'
occasionstring–Occasion tag. Allowed: 'Date Nights', 'Happy Hours', 'Pre-Theater', 'See & Be Seen', 'Serious Takeout Operation', 'Unique Dining Experiences', 'Wasting Your Time & Money'. Hyphens, spaces and undersc…
price_tierinteger–1 ($) to 4 ($$$$)
radius_kmnumber–Search radius in kilometres (default 5 when lat/lng are given without it). Requires lat and lng.

No output schema declared.

No examples provided.

Common questions

What is the NYCfoodie MCP server?

NYCfoodie is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.tireniajilore/nycfoodie. Editorial NYC restaurant recommendations for AI agents: search, compare, guides, ratings. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://nycfoodie-production.up.railway.app/mcp).

Is the NYCfoodie MCP server safe to use?

NYCfoodie scores 67 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

What tools does the NYCfoodie MCP server expose?

NYCfoodie exposes 8 tools: search_restaurants, get_restaurant, compare_restaurants, find_guides, find_similar, and 3 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,941 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

Does the NYCfoodie MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to NYCfoodie without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

Is the NYCfoodie MCP server still maintained?

NYCfoodie is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 29 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.